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Sorry not to respond sooner but I have been busy and unable get back to this. My question is based on the fact that in the immediately preceding exercise one of the sentences to translate into Latin was "(His) daughter is getting (parat) a good dinner for the farmer." Here the genitive is implied while the dative is used explicitly. It just seemed to me to be more appropriate to treat agricolae as the dative in view of this connection. Even here I still think it is probably ambiguous if both sentences were in Latin and I probably would go with the genitive myself.